The following was a comment made from an earlier post here on Nation of Blue. It comes from a fan who is not originally from KY, but has an interesting take on UK and it’s fans. He not only supports Randall Cobb’s perspective on UK Football Fans, but he also questions if the team actually believes in you.. THE FAN.
Enjoy the read and tell us if you agree or disagree with “Unregistered”s opinion of UK fans…
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[QUOTE=Unregistered]I was a Seminole in the 90’s (c/o ’96) so I know a little something about how to be a fan. I’m in grad school at UK presently and trying very hard to be a wildcat. I have to agree with Cobb that the fans here suck. These are basketball fans and they have no balls! They come to the games to eat. I’d never boo my own team. In fact, nobody cheers until the end of the game when (and if) we are almost back in it, all team, no support. The fan is the 12th man.
Down by seven and its dead quiet, down by 14 and we go home. The team doesn’t believe in the fans and the fans don’t believe in the team. That all happens before anyone hits the stadium. My first game was years back when we beat Georgia and tore the posts down. They were talking about running Brooks outta here back then and getting a “real” coach. It was just gross. I was there for the LSU game and never shut up. I have always believed, for every single game. The one thing I don’t believe in is Kentucky fans. There are a “few” but the ones I’ve met come from somewhere else. I was so let down by the people around me last game. I got the looks for cheering when we were down a few points until someone had the nerve to tell me to “turn it down”. I took off my BLUE Jersey and left the stadium in disgust. It was a “bluicide”. I threw it in a garbage. Ya, I hate basketball and this “ain’t” no basketball school anyway. It’s delusional to think a bunch of one and dones did anything for this school, much less for Kentucky! They got “themselves” million dollar contracts and didn’t provide the hardware. No education just a paycheck. In our faces….”moneys on the night stand b^&%$”. NO BALLS HERE!
We do have a scoreboard for a reason. It’s a football school or at least it was and nobody could see that either. I beleive thats over now. I can hear the fat lady singing. Only real fans, the ones with real hardware (fsu ’94 & ’99), can. The best hardware this school will ever have comes from it is security gaurds. Cause one put a better hit on me two weeks ago trying to get onto the field harder than the drunk bald guy that sits in front of me put on that gaint pretzel but prolly not like the one he puts on his drunk wife if she doesn’t do what he says. A zit eventually busts and its time in Lexington.
Meanwhile, I’m going back to the ACC (only to cheer for Florida when they play Kentucky) but at least I put out what Cobb saw and its true blue sad! The real south knows football and like the civil war, your in the middle, on the fence, right or wrong, no balls. 100 years later and nothing changed. Go big blue balls! They should add yellow to the colors casue y’all fight like James L. Allen (The last courier to leave the Alamo). Half the survivers were from kentucky. If that tells you something. Oh! and yes blue does run cause I got it all over my socks and underwear from my big blue jersey in the washer. [/QUOTE]
